the minute you know mortars are used, or rpgs are used, it's either a terrorist attack or a military attack. those are the only two things it could be. what is a terrorist? a terrorist isn't necessarily all one thing. a terrorist uses the attack as a vehicle. we all know that now. therefore, it's pretty clear the minute mortars show up, the minute rpgs show up, you have a terrorist attack. >> chris: so why was the president a week later talking about the video? especially when it turns out and they knew in real-time it was never protest to begin with? >> these things can be assessed into oblivion, too. i go by prior incidents. prior incidents give me a good assessment of whether there is a high likelihood so the assessment can be with confidence. and i think that assessment could have been made earlier on with confidence. having said that, i have not seen the hundreds of threat warnings. i want to go through them and look at them. this come down to our purpose. we have been proud over the time of 9/11, thestow pipes have -- the stove pipes have been down and the intelligence is bette